Spring at last... Read on to bring some sunshine into your reading life with exciting pre-publication extracts to download, our favourite eBooks of the Month and an easy way you can help an author you might know...
Ssssh, don't tell anyone but you can have a privileged gander at some exciting opening extracts from some
pre-published books that our editorial experts have pulled out for special mention. See the shelf below for next month's hot tickets. One absolute must read is debut
One Step Too Far from Tina Seskis. Sarah Broadhurst said of it 'Riveting, taut and hugely enjoyable with a shocking and impossible to guess twist'.
Find out more today.
And talking of amazing Debuts, our Reader Review panel absolutely loved the beautifully moving story of a family torn apart in the aftermath of losing a child,
The Boy That Never Was by Karen Perry, calling it
'A real page-turner with lots of twists and turns guaranteed to keep you guessing!' and
'A great read, I just couldn't put it down.' Find out for yourself today.
Come and meet some of your old and brand spanking new favourite books that have inspired film-makers. We know, we know, the books usually far outshine the films, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth - each month you could
win a £20 cinema gift voucher!
Written for young adults, Richelle Mead's bestselling
Vampire Academy Series has been made into a film. Feast your eyes on
Vampire Academy: the Ultimate Guide, a must have for 'fangs' of the series.
And with the recent TV launch of the new series of
Game of Thrones, we are on the hunt to find out Lovereading's Best and Worst Book-to-Screen adaptations and you can
win a £50 Lovereading voucher if you get involved. To have a chance of winning this £50 Lovereading voucher,
'LIKE' one of our Facebook pages and COMMENT on our wall telling us your best and worst Book-to-Screen adaptations. All the entries will be popped into a virtual hat and a winner will be chosen at random and announced by 5 May. Good luck.
Bestselling author Robin Hobb sets her spellbinding
The Rain Wild Chronicles in a world of dragons struggling for survival and attempting to co-exist with humans. The breathtaking and concluding
Blood of Dragons is just out in paperback.
E-by-gum, we have some right corkers for you this month! Four of our favourites are on the shelf below but don't forget that almost every title we feature is likely to be available as an eBook as well as a 'real book' – just look at our 'Other Formats' box that you will find on every book page.
We know it's hard when you finish a much loved book or series to find another, so allow the expert team here at Lovereading to lend a hand.
If you liked the novel
Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson, then you should definitely try this month's MEGA Debut, the creepy, compelling and scarily plausible
The Book of You by
Claire Kendal which is set against the backdrop of a trial where the lead character is a juror.
One of our Reader Review Panel said '
I was absolutely hooked from the very beginning until the very last word. It's a real gem of a debut novel.'
Literary Notes for April – books too good not to share
The Bookshop That Floated Away by Sarah Henshaw is an adventure filled account of a book filled barge, from its initial concept (thought daft by the bank manager), through to its eventual floating and then somewhat chaotic journey around the country. A great armchair travel read for a bookaholic.
Find yourself seduced by London as you've never seen it before -
A History of London in 100 Places by David Long reveals the hidden, the unknown and the surprising, then displays it with fanfare and a flourish for your reading pleasure.
In a time where we think we know it all, think again,
Off the Map: Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Forgotten Islands, Feral Places and What They Tell Us About the World by Alastair Bonnett will inspire you to see our surroundings with new eyes.
For anyone with a passion for astronomy and science that is accessible without the brain power of Stephen Hawking, we recommend
The Day Without Yesterday by Stuart Clark. A vivid piece of fiction, bursting with historical facts, it's the final part of an immense trilogy which began with
The Sky's Dark Labyrinth and continued in
The Sensorium of God.
Lovers of 'The Good Life' will welcome the reissue of John Jackson's tale of self-sufficiency,
A Little Piece of England, set on a Kent smallholding and first published in 1979. He moved there with his wife and three children (all more or less enthusiastic about the move)…
And don't miss this super compelling read which has been in our top 10 this month.
Little Egypt by Lesley Glaister. With a flavour of
I Capture the Castle, a hint of
Atonement and a dash of
A Passage to India, it is a richly dark read with comic undertones and an acute eye for detail. Why not read an extract to see what you have missed!
As ALL members of reading groups will know, one of the hardest choices is what to read next. To help, we have our
'Reading Groups' category which has what we think are the best choices in any given month. Why not download some free Opening Extracts and get choosing. You also get
an extra 5% off the price if you buy 5 or more copies of a book.
Two favourites of ours this month, both out in paperback, are the delightful, enjoyable and fascinating
The Humans by Matt Haig and the classy, sophisticated debut
Indiscretion from Charles Dubow.
The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
The shortlist for the biggest prize in Women's writing has just been announced. Read extracts of them in our Book Awards category and pick your favourite.
For 10 days from 22 May Hay-on-Wye becomes the literary centre of the universe as hundreds of great writers and thinkers from around the world discuss the new ideas driving the arts and sciences, politics and history.
At the main festival there are special events around Shakespeare's 450th anniversary and World War One. And the Children's festival is jam-packed with workshops for families and children of all ages. To find out more visit
www.Hayfestival.org or
click here to book tickets.
Help an Author make better Social Introductions
At Lovereading we love authors most of all, as they create the brilliant books that we get to tell you all about. So, to help them share more of their thoughts with you the reader, we have built a uniquely useful new system that shows their latest Facebook posts and Tweets on their Lovereading author and book pages.
But, we can only show the posts and tweets if we have the correct information. So, why not help any authors you know, or follow, by checking their author page on Lovereading to see whether the Facebook posts and Tweets are appearing. If they aren't, there are handy buttons to let the author know what is missing and what you can do about it - simples. N.B. All links are verified before being uploaded to the author pages.
P. S. Don't miss the chance to win a copy of Elizabeth George's latest crime novel
Just One Evil Act along with a set of Inspector Lynley mysteries AND a £5 Lovereading voucher…
P. P. S. Good luck to everyone involved with
World Book Night, 23 April. Visit the website to find out what is happening in your area.
HAPPY EASTER READING
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